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Apple Ads on ESPN

June 3rd, 2009  |  Published in Entertainment  |  Comment

I saw this new Apple ad yesterday on ESPN after reading about it from Ryan Sims. Its a campaign for the latest iPod shuffles.[1]

Apple has taken over the ESPN homepage in the past. Their ads have successfully interacted with elements of the page, and not to mention, brought the clicks in as people have been intrigued by them. I know I was, as I had to replay them more than twice.

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  1. Here’s my writeup on that version. [↩]

Apple iPod Touch Ad Breaks Yahoo! Games

December 13th, 2008  |  Published in Entertainment  |  Comment

Check out this very creative Apple iPod Touch ad which appears to be “breaking” the Yahoo! Games homepage.

Note: The music is by The Asteroid Galaxy Tour, titled “Around The Bend“.

PS. This is the second Flash ad that I can recall doing this “break” concept. The first one I saw to successfully fool me to doing a WTF-moment occured this past September. It was a Nintendo Wii game campaign for Wario Land: Shake It! on Youtube.

Fantasy Basketball Team Omega

October 26th, 2008  |  Published in Entertainment  |  Comment

Here’s my second team for Fantasy Basketball. It was using the default stat categories, and have only a total of 12 team managers.

  1. (5) Dirk Nowitzki – DAL » PF
  2. (20) Dwight Howard – ORL » C
  3. (29) Joe Johnson – ATL » PG,SG
  4. (44) Greg Oden – POR » C
  5. (53) David Lee – NY » PF,C
  6. (68) Rasheed Wallace – DET » PF,C
  7. (77) Mike Bibby – ATL » PG
  8. (92) Randy Foye – MIN » PG,SG
  9. (101) Kirk Hinrich – CHI » PG,SG
  10. (116) Tayshaun Prince – DET » SF
  11. (125) Bobby Simmons – NJ » SG,SF
  12. (140) Rudy Fernandez – POR » PG,SG
  13. (149) Hakim Warrick – Mem » SF,PF

Fantasy Basketball Team Alpha

October 24th, 2008  |  Published in Entertainment  |  Comment

Just had a 14-team fantasy basketball live online draft earlier at 8:45pm. All I can say is that it was pretty darn long w/ 14. 12 would’ve been great.

Meanwhile, the league is hosted by Yahoo. I can definitely say that I like playing on there best as their UI/UX just rawks. Other than it being 14 team managers taking about 1-minute and 30-seconds to do a pick, I was upset at first grabbing the 13th spot in the draft order[1]. But I guess, it was a good thing on the wrap-around. Here’s how my team shaped up to be:

  1. (13) Chris Bosh – TOR » PF, C
  2. (16) Baron Davis – LAC » PG
  3. (41) Jason Kidd – DAL » PG
  4. (44) Al Horford – ATL » PF, C
  5. (69) Michael Beasley – MIA » SF, PF
  6. (72) David Lee – NY » PF, C
  7. (97) Jameer Nelson – ORL » PG
  8. (100) Raja Bell – PHO » SG
  9. (125) Ricky Davis – LAC » SG, SF
  10. (128) Monta Ellis – GS » PG, SG
  11. (153) Andres Nocioni – CHI » SF, PF
  12. (156) Mikki Moore – SAC » PF, C
  13. (181) Vladimir Radmanovic – LAL » PF

I was trying to pickup Rudy Fernandez (Portland Trailblazers » PG, SG) for my 13th-spot but he got picked up at the end of the 12th-round. There were a couple of more guys in front of Radman but hearing that he’ll be starting in front of Lamar Odom and Trevor Ariza as a Small Forward, I say why not. He’ll probably get some dishes from the inside and sink some threes in. Being a player with only PF status at the moment, he’ll need to start at least 3-games if I recall correctly in terms of Yahoo dubbing him as a SF.

Anyways, I’m happy overall with my draft being 13 out of 14 team managers. But if you got any suggestions with regards to picking up another Shooting Guard and/or Center, let me know. I’m thinking I might need a SG to fill in that 3rd-spot rotation till Monta Ellis heals up.

  1. Lebron James went #1. Then Chris Paul #2. I would’ve taken Chris Paul personally, but you can’t go wrong with either of them. The league settings were Yahoo default in terms of position. The stat categories had the additional OREB and AST/TO. [↩]

Pitcher Gets Hit by a Foul Ball?

June 9th, 2007  |  Published in Uncategorized

So I just got home from a flight from SWA–I’m in LA now. As I’m trying to setup my Fantasy Baseball lineup for Saturday, I came across one of my pitchers’ news tidbit. It was for Germano; a Padres pitcher. Keep in mind, I haven’t seen ESPN or any sports news yet…

Jun 8 San Diego Padres SP Justin Germano (knee) was hit near his left knee by a foul ball off the bat of OF Hiram Bocachica in the third inning, Friday, June 8, against the Seattle Mariners, according to the Associated Press. After sacrificing Bocachica along, Germano went into the clubhouse, although he ended up staying in the game through five innings.

After reading this, the first thing that came across my mind was that the ball magically turned into a heat-seeking sidewinder. Yeah–exactly. How the heck did this happen, or even how the heck could it happen?

I mean, your on the mound, and you get hit by a “foul ball”?!?!

Damn. I just need to watch Sports Center.

Update: 5 minutes later. While trying to win some dough on Blingo, I searched for “Hiram Bocachica”. http://www.hirambocachica.com/ … Oh. HA! =) Maybe the writer of that snippet should’ve specified it was his own damn teammate. Just maybe. I mean come on, not everyone knows every teams’ players.

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